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Influenza
SOUTH KOREA · 2004

Influenza

Bong Joon Ho
surveillance and privacy mental deterioration social isolation urban despair psychological breakdown
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Synopsis

The film starts with a man named Cho Hyuk-rae who has perched dangerously on top of the Han River Bridge. It is a sad picture of a man who has been caught unwittingly on a security camera. The camera continues to reveal the downward spiral of Cho and those of us who surround him. The 'real' images shown through the camera keep on becoming more 'corrupted' as the time goes by.

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